ABOUT
Maurice S. Smith
Director since 2021
Audit and Compliance and Compensation Committees
Key Experience and Qualifications
Mr. Smith is a national leader in health care and brings more than 30 years of experience across finance, strategy, operations and stakeholder relations. Mr. Smith serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Care Service Corporation. As the largest customer-owned health insurance company in the U.S., HCSC serves more than 27 million people across the country and manages $150 billion of medical spend. The company operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield® Plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, and HealthSpringSM plans nationwide. Through a constellation of subsidiaries and strategic investments, HCSC offers a range of products and services, including its core medical offering, dental and vision benefits; third-party administration; pharmacy benefits management; and digital health solutions.
Professional Experience
- Health Care Service Corporation, a leading health insurer
- Chairman (since 2025)
- Chief Executive Officer (since 2020)
- President (since 2019)
- Vice Chair of the Board of Directors (2020-2025)
- Senior Vice President, Business Development and Subsidiary Management (2015)
- Divisional Vice President, Business Development and Subsidiary Management (2012-2014)
- Vice President, Corporate Transactions and Business Analysis (2011-2012)
- Numerous other roles of progressive responsibility (1993-2011)
- President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, a division of Health Care Service Corporation (2015-2019)
Private Boards and Community Service
- Director and Deputy Chair, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Chair of the Board, Prime Therapeutics LLC
- Member of the Board of Directors, AHIP
- Member of the Board of Directors, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Other Current Public Company Directorships
- Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) (since 2023)
